Collections made by Bart Wursten

In flower

In fruit.

Leavs small, green, not much hairy or glaucous; only 5 metacarpels, very long awns

iNaturalist record

Petiole short with a squat gland; bark pale grey

iNaturalist record

Bracts with long, ciliate teeth

Species with shorter, forward pointing teeth on the female bracts

Erect annual with spreading spicate inflorescences; female bracts open with dentate margins.

Large colonies in degraded understorey; female bracts clearly toothed

Leaves long petiolate, rhombic-ovate, capitula small; achenes tuberculate

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

Virgate shrub up to 1 m tall, growing in shallow water.

Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea

Erect unbranched herb, up to 20 cm high; flowers yellow

iNaturalist record

iNaturalist record

Fruit as long or longer than perianth segments

Fruit dark, as long or longer than tepals

With old fruit

Annual

Unbranched annuals with square stems, somewhat winged near the top; leaves linear-lanceolate, auriculate-sagittate at the base. Flowers in few-flowered axillary inflorescences on longish wiry peduncles.

Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

In fruit

Many inflorescences infested with galls

Bright yellow form

smallish coppice growth

In fruit

iNaturalist record

This ia apparently a first record for the MS Division.

iNaturalist record

Fruit rounded, glandular

Large scrambling shrub

Yellow flowered composite with distinctly winged stems

Shrubs in flower

Same shrubs as records 22074/76; now in fruit

In fruit

Pink form

This represents the first record for the Manica-Sofala Division in Mozambique.

Fruit smooth, hairy. Growing together with several other species of wild Cucurbitaceae; possibly wild and not planted

In fruit.

Same plant as PB310; now in flower

Small and wiry annual herbs; coarsely hairy and glandular.

iNaturalist record

Abundant and dominant stands of small trees up to c. 4.5-5 m tall

In fruit

Flowers yellow

Flowering; leafless

Young fruit and tiny young leaves

Leaves with rough hairs.

Handed in by Coimbra people for ID and kept

Very common here

Very young fruit present

Young fruit present

Leaves with aristate apex and rolled under margins; flowers and fruit glabrous; stipules fimbriate

iNaturalist record

In bud.